@noway: "OK. It's not that bad.
It's finally happened. Management sent us an email asking (telling)
us to stop putting up comic strips and cartoons on the walls inside
and outside our offices (cubicles). It seems Dilbert was hitting too
close to home!
Sigh....
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    @bhoc: "<quote>
Sometimes a halberd or a morning star in the cubicle corner ("strictly for 
decoration purposes") servers wonders. Not quite as subtle as a tie, tho'.
Ben
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    @LMackinnon: "<quote>
Perhaps you could get hats to each look like pointy haird bosses . . . <g>
Lauchlan M
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    @noway: "On 5 Nov 2005 14:21:29 -0700, "Glynn Owen" <email_address>
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I only wear ties to weddings and funerals. :)
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    @noway: "On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 00:18:38 +0100, Ben Hochstrasser
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I had to look up halberd. :) I'd like to see the reaction.
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    @noway: "On 5 Nov 2005 20:59:41 -0700, "Glynn Owen" <email_address>
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<g>
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    @noway: "On 6 Nov 2005 16:26:17 -0700, "Glynn Owen" <email_address> wrote to :
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Hmmmm...... it would have to be on my forehead. Not sure I could
live with that....
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    @nospam: "<quote>
Well, you can always glue the to the floor. I suspect they won't 
appreciate it very much though... :-)
Another true horror story: my niece's husband who is a *really* good 
programmer was working in a company that tracks cars & trucks via 
satellite. He was working in the core systems responsible for the 
information exchange to & from a variety of protocols. Real time stuff, 
high priority tasks involving lots of hardware interfacing. All this was 
done in C++ and C#.
One day a manager decided that the programming team was behind schedule 
without any justification (he must have forgotten the dozen or so 
changes in the specs). So he hired an "efficiency expert". Since the EE 
didn't understand s*** about programming, he decided to monitor 
"environmental distractions". To make a long story short, the "expert's" 
recommendations among others, were:
  - Limit the number of bathroom breaks to 2, taking no more than 5
    minutes.
  - To avoid "unnecessary trips to the water cooler", each programmer was
    given one of those water bottles cyclists use.
Immediate result: the company suffered a brain drain because it was 
simply impossible to do stressful work under these ridiculous 
conditions. This happened about one year ago and AFAIK, they are still 
looking for a replacement and even tried to lure him back to their 
dungeons. Being an intelligent fella, he politely declined, of course.
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    @bruce: ""Ronaldo Souza" <email_address> wrote in message 
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I hope he took his red stapler with him.
Bruce 
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    @nospam: "<quote>
:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
No, he didn't take even a pencil. And he didn't burn the place down either.
:-D
Thanks, Bruce. I was needing a good laugh real bad!
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    @kirthatesspam: "<quote>
my boss has long made a policy that the programmer must also do tech 
support.
at this point in the game, it's necessity. there's no one else left. the 
other two programmers quit, and we can no longer affort support 
technicians. he still insists it's a good rule.
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    @nospam: "<quote>
That is a capital sin and should be punish with death by a lethal dose 
of insurance salesmen!
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    @kirthatesspam: "<quote>
oh no. that's too good for him. long distance telemarketers are more 
appropriate.
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